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View Poll Results: Who is MOST to blame for the problems of African Americans?

Re: Who do you blame for the problems of African Americans?? [W:98]

Originally Posted by Krhazy

Exclusionary white people. Slavery and de jure segregation are over, but poverty acts as a de facto segregator, and since meaningful social mobility in America ended around the same time as the civil rights movement, there are still many many African-Americans living in poverty. The problem lies in how middle-to-upper class (white) America is able to segregate itself in neighborhoods, schools, and employment from the poor. It creates a vicious, inescapable circle.

And you want people that are able to make more money and move to nicer areas to what? Not do so and live in a poorer area and send their kids to poor performing schools for some reason? Seriously? Why?

Re: Who do you blame for the problems of African Americans?? [W:98]

Originally Posted by rabbitcaebannog

The entire point is that it IS expensive for taxpayers when those babies are born and we are going to be paying for them for a very long time....maybe even into adulthood if they end up in the penal system. Just a fact. Much cheaper to buy them birth control pills.

A great argument for forced sterilization... I would imagine the poor would like that anyway. All the sex and none of the responsibility ...

Re: Who do you blame for the problems of African Americans?? [W:98]

Originally Posted by rabbitcaebannog

Forced sterilization is also about the most totalitarian thing a government can do. I vote for supplying poor people with birth control. I still like democracy.

I don't care in this case. When the people are having to shell out billions to take care of idiots that should never be having kids in the first place we should do something about it. We do when parents are bad parents, we take their kids. There is a precedent for this. Do you support Child Services taking a child from a supposedly abusive home? If so then prohibiting conception in the first place is a good idea.